Chapter 2 Water Chapter 3 Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins Chapter 4 The Three-Dimensional Structure of Proteins Chapter 5 Protein Function Chapter 6 Enzymes Chapter 8 Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids Chapter 9 DNA-Based Information Technologies Chapter 11 Biological Membranes and Transport Chapter 12 Biosignaling Chapter 13 Bioenergetics and Biochemical Reaction Types Chapter 14 Glycolysis, Gluconeogenesis, and the Pentose Chapter 16 The Citric Acid Cycle Chapter 17 Fatty Acid Catabolism Chapter 18 Amino Acid Oxidation and the Production of Urea Chapter 19 Oxidative Phosphorylation and Photophosphorylation Chapter 20 Carbohydrate Biosynthesis in Plants and Bacteria Chapter 22 Biosynthesis of Amino Acids, Nucleotides, and Related Molecules Chapter 24 Genes and Chromosomes Chapter 25 DNA Metabolism Chapter 26 RNA Metabolism Chapter 28 Regulation of Gene Expression
Part I Molecular Components of Cells 1 The Facts of Life: Chemistry Is the Logic of Biological Phenomena 2 Water: The Medium of Life 3 Thermodynamics of Biological Systems 4 Amino Acids and the Peptide Bond 5 Proteins: Their Primary Structure and Biological Functions 6 Proteins: Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary Structure 7 Carbohydrates and the Glycoconjugates of Cell Surfaces 8 Lipids 9 Membranes and Membrane Transport 10 Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids 11 Structure of Nucleic Acids 12 Recombinant DNA, Cloning, Chimeric Genes, and Synthetic Biology Part II Protein Dynamics 13 Enzymes—Kinetics and Specificity 14 Mechanisms of Enzyme Action 15 Enzyme Regulation 16 Molecular Motors Part III Metabolism and Its Regulation Part IV Information Transfer
I THE EVIDENCE ON CONVERGENCE A Formal Legal Change B The Structure of Share Ownership C The Growth of European Stock Markets D The Emergence of an International Market for Corporate Control E A Preliminary Evaluation F The Status of the Insider-Dominated Firm II WHEN DOES SEPARATION OF OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL ARISE? A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE A The United States Experience 1 The Role of Investment Bankers 2 The New York Stock Exchange as Guardian of the Public Investor B The British Experience C A Civil-Law Contrast: The French Experience D The German Experience: Statist Intervention That Stunted the M arket E A Preliminary Summary III\ DOES LAW MATTER?\ RECONSIDERED A Law and the Decentralized Common-Law World B The Sequence of Legal Change: Reinterpreting LLS&V 1 The United States Experience 2 The Global Experience C The Political Theory of Dispersed Ownership D Implications for Transitional Economies IV C ONCLUSION
